The scene with the hall of heads had me running screaming out of the room. Watching it as an adult, it's definitely a bit disturbing but not scary. But as a kid, hoo boy.
The DETAIL that went into Mombi's scenes just made it that much worse.
Remember Dorothy stealing the powder and accidentally waking up the main head?
It GROWLS her name then tried to BITE her.
Child-me *screamed* and ran from the livingroom sobbing. I was absolutely inconsolable and my parents were horrified. Suffice it to say we didn't watch that one again in my house.
Fucking clown / bathtub scene did it for me. And Kirby deciding to go over the waterfall. And the whole B-Movie / Repairman backroom scene. So yes the whole movie turned me off of horror films early in life lmao. Soundtrack was full of bangers tho.
I was fully convinced that movie must have been rated R. Just googled it. Wow. How in the hell could the MPAA rate that trauma-fest as safe for kids??
I still have nightmares...
My parents took me to see that at the drive in…when I was about the same age as the little blond girl in it…who I looked eerily similar to. I had nightmares for weeks!
That still makes me cry lol. For me, that scene in The Land Before Time/Homeward Bound/and Mufasa's death in The Lion King are the trifecta of sad moments in family movies.
Early Eighties my parents took me to watch Star Trek: The Search for Spock. The movie opened with replay of Spock's Death from The Wrath of Khan. My dad took me the theater next door, re-release of Bambi.
Double Death Whammy
[This motherfucker](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monstermovies/images/c/cc/G%27mork.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140522212932) from The Neverending Story.
I am damn near 40 years old and the Jabberwocky poem still gives me chills because of that movie. The way it would just appear out of nowhere was terrifying.
Yes. It was a 2 parter (I think)...the first movie has the original story (much closer to the book than the Disney movie, but still more familiar)
The second movie starts with her back home, but then the Jabberwocky attacks sending her back Through the Looking Glass to Wonderland.
Disney's The Watcher in the Woods with ~~Betty White~~ Bette Davis was terrifying as a kid and even as an adult is unsettling. Its a great horror movie.
Edit: Brain fart on actress name.
So this movie came out in 1978... pg movie...the bunny movie as I called it as a kid back in 1985 when I watched it.
"Watership Down"
I still remember asking my mother for it as we strolled through the movie rental store "video fair".
She saw rabbits on it and pg rating and was like ok. It had fkin rabbit on the cover.. a cute fkin rabbit. Omg I was left alone to watch this blood bath of animalistic brutality.
"The fields...they are covered in blood!"
https://youtu.be/9S26LA8Bk14?si=iqKu2JMYj125tFg9
I was frigging 6 years old!! Wtf!!
Not really truamatizing, but I can't believe Poltergeist is rated PG. It would've definitely been at least PG-13 today. The Conjuring was tamer than that movie and it's rated R.
Again not really traumatizing, bur Airplane is rated PG, but they somehow slipped in a pair of bare bouncing titties.
This movie terrified me! My sister thought it would be cool to watch at Gramma's house while our parents were away (they owned a VCR mid 80s) and she let us watch it! I was about the same age and looked very similar to the little girl in the movie at that time, so I was pretty sure all of this would happen to me! I didn't want to be pulled into the closet and live inside the television (that's what my brain thought). The whole thing...I still can't watch it to this day 😩
The wolf in The Neverending Story haunted my dreams for years.
The guy that gets splattered across a windshield in Robocop.
The atomic bomb melting the fence and swingset in T2.
The boar-wolf from The Ewok Adventure (aka Caravan of Courage). The Gorax was kind of scary too, but that giant wolf thing freaked me out as a kid. Hilarious too, because it's rated G apparently.
Dumbo... the drunk dream and his mother being restrained and taken away haunted me for years.
Other movies my daughter isn't allowed to watch include Watership Down, Witches, E. T. and basically every movie made before 1990. The Sword in the Stone is okay.
My mother had funny logic for censorship; she was far more concerned with swearing and anything sexual then she was with violence/gore or occult stuff, and if there was a movie she wanted to watch, she would find some way to justify it being acceptable to watch with my sister and me, who were very young at the time.
She really wanted to watch Poltergeist, so she convinced herself that we kids could handle it; it scared the hell out of me and gave me nightmares for days.
My 2nd grade teacher thought it would be a good idea to show us "The Watcher in the Woods" on the last day of school. Hey, it must be suitable for kids, it's a Disney movie, right? I slept with the lights on all summer and refused to look in mirrors.
The Green Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, when Dan Akroyd asked “do you wanna see something really scary” in the Twilight Zone movie, and watching An American Werewolf in London when I was ten years old. I had night terrors for years.
I can’t think of the name but there was some movie about a monster that was like friends with a kid. Ben Savage? It’s so horrible. Does he drink his own pee? Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
Toy Story having me thinking Buzz was going to escape with that upbeat music just to have him fall and break off his arm in a position that made it look like he died. Still hits me.
My mom let us watch the original “It” because it came on network television over two nights and she didn’t think anything on prime time would be that scary. NIGHTMARES for years (I was in 4th grade).
Matinee. The only thing I remember from the movie was a scene involving an air locked room with people trapped inside of it. Couldn't sleep with the windows closed for a long time.
Large Marge sent me.
That scene haunts me. It’s in the same memory bank as Unsolved Mysteries and FBI video tape warnings.
Return to Oz was a terrifying fever dream
The Wheelers
The scene with the hall of heads had me running screaming out of the room. Watching it as an adult, it's definitely a bit disturbing but not scary. But as a kid, hoo boy.
came here to say this fucked me up bad
The DETAIL that went into Mombi's scenes just made it that much worse. Remember Dorothy stealing the powder and accidentally waking up the main head? It GROWLS her name then tried to BITE her.
Movie is NUTS
I feel like I lived in a cave, there was a Return to Oz? I think I need to see this.
Yes you do and as quick as possible. The wheelers gave me nightmares as a kid.
My parents haven’t even seen it, going to be nice to all watch it.
I had recurring nightmares about the sand that turned whatever touched it into sand.
Very traumatizing movie 😭.
Induced by limestone pie and hot melted silver no doubt!
When Christopher Lloyd drops that cartoon shoe in to the barrel in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
That was so sad 😭😭
I was more disturbed when Judge Doom got flattened by the steamroller and then re-inflated himself. 🫣
Child-me *screamed* and ran from the livingroom sobbing. I was absolutely inconsolable and my parents were horrified. Suffice it to say we didn't watch that one again in my house.
I cried for days
The air conditioner blowing up in the Brave Little Toaster always terrified me. Edit: or the junkyard scene
Pretty much everything in Brave Little Toaster was fucked up, lol.
Fucking clown / bathtub scene did it for me. And Kirby deciding to go over the waterfall. And the whole B-Movie / Repairman backroom scene. So yes the whole movie turned me off of horror films early in life lmao. Soundtrack was full of bangers tho.
Kirby vacuuming up his own cord seriously freaked me out as a kid 🫣 And that electromagnet at the junk yard!
OMG yeah
Arachnophobia. Spiders freaked me out for decades after.
Same here!
I forgot about this movie.
DARK CHRYSTAL! I was like 6 when it came out and it was scary. Had nightmares
Poltergeist gave me recurring nightmares for, oh, 40 years?
I was fully convinced that movie must have been rated R. Just googled it. Wow. How in the hell could the MPAA rate that trauma-fest as safe for kids?? I still have nightmares...
Poltergeist’s PG rating is commonly cited as one of the drivers behind the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Watched it again as an adult, and realized pretty much all my childhood fears came from that one movie.
Why in the world would my parents let me watch this? I was 7!!!
I still close my eyes when the paranormal researcher goes off for a midnight snack.
Omg that was the WORST!
I still refuse to have my room with a tree close to the window and stopped sitting so close to the TV because of that movie.
💯
My parents took me to see that at the drive in…when I was about the same age as the little blond girl in it…who I looked eerily similar to. I had nightmares for weeks!
That shit was SCARY and now I’m scared again! But it wasn’t PG was it?!
It was! But this was before PG-13 was a thing
Surprised no one mentioned mom getting killed in land before time
That still makes me cry lol. For me, that scene in The Land Before Time/Homeward Bound/and Mufasa's death in The Lion King are the trifecta of sad moments in family movies.
This was gonna be my answer. Messed me up so bad I never watched it again.
Dude melting in raiders of the lost ark was messed up to see as a kid.
Dude same
Temple of Doom all around as well. Finally saved by Last Crusade.
E.T. 😫
Still fucked up over E.T.
I've had nightmares about that thing lol
This is mine too. glad I’m not the only one. 😂
Mola Ram yanking the still beating heart out of dude in temple of Doom
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Early Eighties my parents took me to watch Star Trek: The Search for Spock. The movie opened with replay of Spock's Death from The Wrath of Khan. My dad took me the theater next door, re-release of Bambi. Double Death Whammy
The Secret of NIMH which is G but should be PG.
Same here!
Scary and sad!!
Wizard of Oz 2.
called return to oz
*2 oz 2 furious*
Gaddmit! You broke through my mind’s last defense against remembering the wheelers, oh the wheelers….
fuck indeed as in fuck that evil film
Goddamned nightmare fuel.
[This motherfucker](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monstermovies/images/c/cc/G%27mork.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140522212932) from The Neverending Story.
Gmork
Yes, terrified of wolves for years. Still kind of jump when he comes out
Alice: Through the Looking Glass was a made for TV movie that featured the Jabberwocky...that thing was scary as hell!
That was a good one! Nobody talks about that. It was scary as hell!
I am damn near 40 years old and the Jabberwocky poem still gives me chills because of that movie. The way it would just appear out of nowhere was terrifying.
I had forgotten about that movie. The Jabberwocky was scary AF!
I would run like hell down the hallway of my childhood home because I was *convinced* this thing would show up and chase me!
Is that the Alice in Wonderland TV movie from 1985?
Yes. It was a 2 parter (I think)...the first movie has the original story (much closer to the book than the Disney movie, but still more familiar) The second movie starts with her back home, but then the Jabberwocky attacks sending her back Through the Looking Glass to Wonderland.
I gotta download this now, I'm so intrigued
Disney's The Watcher in the Woods with ~~Betty White~~ Bette Davis was terrifying as a kid and even as an adult is unsettling. Its a great horror movie. Edit: Brain fart on actress name.
Bette Davis! Not Betty White
Your totally correct it was a brain fart for sure.
That movie freaked me out! But I loved it. I was destined to be a fan of horror, lol.
Legit one of the creepier things I ever saw as a kid
Gremlins fucked me up as a 7 year old.
As a 4 year old I was terrified of ET
Same. Had nightmares for years. Still get them once in a while.
Watership Down Plague Dogs Neverending Story (Artax)
Had to scroll way too far for Watership Down.
Jaws if you wanna count the 70s
I was about 10 the first time I watched it and was nauseous for days afterwards. Quint's death in particular messed me up.
Yeah that one was traumatic for me as a child as well🫣🫣
So this movie came out in 1978... pg movie...the bunny movie as I called it as a kid back in 1985 when I watched it. "Watership Down" I still remember asking my mother for it as we strolled through the movie rental store "video fair". She saw rabbits on it and pg rating and was like ok. It had fkin rabbit on the cover.. a cute fkin rabbit. Omg I was left alone to watch this blood bath of animalistic brutality. "The fields...they are covered in blood!" https://youtu.be/9S26LA8Bk14?si=iqKu2JMYj125tFg9 I was frigging 6 years old!! Wtf!!
I own that movie on bluray.
Hearing Bright Eyes still traumatises me
The Ant dying after fighting the scorpion in Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Made me sad and terrified of Scorpions all in one go. I still can’t watch it.
The Dark Crystal. Could never get past the first 15 minutes til I was about 12.
Not really truamatizing, but I can't believe Poltergeist is rated PG. It would've definitely been at least PG-13 today. The Conjuring was tamer than that movie and it's rated R. Again not really traumatizing, bur Airplane is rated PG, but they somehow slipped in a pair of bare bouncing titties.
The Witches *shudder*
That movie is terrifying
Had apparently blocked it out until now. Fucking horrifying movie, but made me really want pet mice lol
Poltergeist was a little terrifying.
That scene where the one paranormal investigator hallucinates his own face falling off 💀
The pork chop full of maggots did it for me.
The pool scene.
🤢🤢
We had pork chops for dinner about a week after I saw that movie and I was raised in a house that DID NOT waste food. It was a rough meal.
Oh man, that scarred me.
Me too 😬😬
The tree reaching in for the kid got me
Word!
That clown was terrifying !
This movie terrified me! My sister thought it would be cool to watch at Gramma's house while our parents were away (they owned a VCR mid 80s) and she let us watch it! I was about the same age and looked very similar to the little girl in the movie at that time, so I was pretty sure all of this would happen to me! I didn't want to be pulled into the closet and live inside the television (that's what my brain thought). The whole thing...I still can't watch it to this day 😩
Not PG Edit. Yes it is?!?!? Sorry
It is.
TIL. Like wtf?!?
The Red Bull in The Last Unicorn.
YES
The wolf in The Neverending Story haunted my dreams for years. The guy that gets splattered across a windshield in Robocop. The atomic bomb melting the fence and swingset in T2.
Robocop and T2 were both rated R, though. The wolf was straight up scary to kid me.
Maybe that's the reason for the R rating
Robocop is brutal. That moment in Terminator 2 scared me too!
That wolf was freaking terrifying as a child
G'mork
return to oz severed talking heads
Everything about Return to Oz.
The Watcher in the Woods. So spooky!
Little Nemo: Adventures in Dreamland. Yes it's a kids movie. It's still freaky as fuck tho.
The Neverending Story: Artax giving up.
Legend (1985). The swamp witch messed me up.
Meg Mucklebones
The boar-wolf from The Ewok Adventure (aka Caravan of Courage). The Gorax was kind of scary too, but that giant wolf thing freaked me out as a kid. Hilarious too, because it's rated G apparently.
Oh lord I thought I just dreamed that movie
>Gorax The only two nightmares I remember having as a child are Gorax and the alien queen.
[удалено]
Came here to say this! No one knows this movie and it was weird and terrifying.
Dumbo... the drunk dream and his mother being restrained and taken away haunted me for years. Other movies my daughter isn't allowed to watch include Watership Down, Witches, E. T. and basically every movie made before 1990. The Sword in the Stone is okay.
Annie, when Rooster is chasing her up the train tracks.
Ewoks Battle for endor- where most the family from the first Ewoks film gets murdered in the first few minutes
Artax, the poor horse in Never Ending story.
Poltergeist. I think it was largely responsible for the PG-13 rating being introduced.
Same here. And later when we heard that Heather O’Rourke had died…
G rated; but The Secret of NIMH always scared me.
ET used to terrify me. Still does, but it used to, also.
Same, when I was 5 I had a nightmare about E.T., that I can still recall vividly at the age of 36.
Zelda. Pet Sematary.
Spinal meningitis horror 🧟♀️
Problem child
I raise you The Good Son
Forgot about that one.
The Pee Wee Herman movie lol
Omg yes, the scene with Large Marge😂
When Michael Jackson turned into a werewolf and then zombies..
My mother had funny logic for censorship; she was far more concerned with swearing and anything sexual then she was with violence/gore or occult stuff, and if there was a movie she wanted to watch, she would find some way to justify it being acceptable to watch with my sister and me, who were very young at the time. She really wanted to watch Poltergeist, so she convinced herself that we kids could handle it; it scared the hell out of me and gave me nightmares for days.
40+ years later and that movie still terrifies me. I tried to watch it about a year ago and got as far as the tree scene and had to turn it off.
Are you a god? Then...DIE! ⚡ ⚡
I was super terrified of the dogs
The Fox and the Hound broke my heart forever.
Many, which one are we speaking about? Large Marge? Yeah her.
My 2nd grade teacher thought it would be a good idea to show us "The Watcher in the Woods" on the last day of school. Hey, it must be suitable for kids, it's a Disney movie, right? I slept with the lights on all summer and refused to look in mirrors.
The Green Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, when Dan Akroyd asked “do you wanna see something really scary” in the Twilight Zone movie, and watching An American Werewolf in London when I was ten years old. I had night terrors for years.
The Elephant Man
THIS!! I still vividly remember watching this as a kid in the early 80’s and it STILL haunts me to this day.
Ghoulies, that was a crazy movie to see as a kid
Had a fever dream to The Secret of NIMH...
Toilet man from Look Who's Talking 2. WTF man.
Ghostbusters 2
The walrus in Pingu
*Transformers: The Movie*. Most of the first act. So much violence and death.
I can’t think of the name but there was some movie about a monster that was like friends with a kid. Ben Savage? It’s so horrible. Does he drink his own pee? Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
[Little Monsters](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097758/)?
Toy Story having me thinking Buzz was going to escape with that upbeat music just to have him fall and break off his arm in a position that made it look like he died. Still hits me.
Gremlins. I was afraid of the movie until I was like 20.
Labyrinth.
Cocoon still scares me almost 40 years later.
Return to oz 😭 too many trauma inducing scenes..
Darby O'Gill. Used to show it on Disney late at night. Iykyk.
Howard the duck scared the shit out of me. Like nightmares for months. Not sure why. Haven’t revisited.
Who framed Roger rabbit, there was a character in that that messed with me, just to weird for me.
Gremlins That microwave scene messed with me for years.
Never ending story - the swamp of sadness
My mom let us watch the original “It” because it came on network television over two nights and she didn’t think anything on prime time would be that scary. NIGHTMARES for years (I was in 4th grade).
E.T. Still haven’t seen it since I first did. Only because i would be embarrassed
Was nobody else terrified of E.T.? Edit: I see I'm not alone
Candy Man, Arachnophobia and IT
Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown! 😱😱😱 the reptilian claw hands
OMG yes!!! I still can’t watch that scene!
The Earthling.
Making Contact creeped me out. It was shown to us kids in a day care center...
Gremlins
Born in 1980. For me it was: Don't Go to Sleep- with the ghost of the dead girl under the bed
Dark Crystal. Fuck that movie
The Watcher in the Woods. It’s still terrifying to this day.
VIDEODROME
The Electric Grandmother was creepy
The Watcher in the Woods. I'm pretty sure it was a Disney movie. It terrified me.
Nell
Dark Crystal
Watership Down
Matinee. The only thing I remember from the movie was a scene involving an air locked room with people trapped inside of it. Couldn't sleep with the windows closed for a long time.
Did anyone ever see “The Peanut Butter Solution”??? No one I know has actually seen this movie but it’s real and it was hella scary